Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
BAZ LUHRMANNI’ve always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it’s the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia’s passion to get lost in a faraway place.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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I really believe musical form will go on. There’s got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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To be honest, there is a tourists’ trail; my family had a farm and a gas station, and you can go and see my birthplace, though where I lived is actually under a freeway now.
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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn’t make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don’t think so. On my films I decide.
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